New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-28
THE Talk OF TIE DAY.

Cincinnati ia to have big centennial celebration
next year is also laying Pipes to capture the TWO
National conventions that viii DO hell in 1885, The
guarantee fund ia now being raised, besides which the
Athens Of the West promises that the delegates VIII
have a bigger there than they could have in any
other city outside Of New-York
Out Observation-Disclosures TO servant-girll-Is MT.
servant-girl-No he's out.
C.-That's fb. / saw him enter here minute
s. CT tell yc he's out.
CT say he's not OUT he's In 49,, ....,. 90,
s. G-Well, he's out Of money and that's OUT
enough for you, anyway
And IL was.-(Boston Courier
There Is decimal clock in wiesbaden which Is con-
str,cted on the following principle: The day has 10
hours tho hour 10 decades, each decade 10 minutes,
each minute 10 seconds and each second 10 rays
thus dividing the whole day into 100000 parts.
similar division Is to be applied TO the CIRCLE Herr
Moder OF that city goes still further, and proposes TO
divide the year into 10 months-the even months OF
&c. tho uneven ones Of 81 days each. The advantages
Of this decimal system are placed in evidence. and
tho inventor hopes to the same adopted before
long in spite Of tho present opposition.
Tho saunterer overheard the following the other
day; Two laborers met upon street corner ana one
doing Pat" "Oh finely, man; never did better In
my lie" "wbat are you working att" "oh. I'm
name me- is that !" a%hy, I'm driving dump-cart
man."-tDoston Budget.
Last week there appeared In 1.-THE Philadelphia
Ledger" notices Of the deaths Of tweny-sx persons
nino men and seventeen Women who had lived To or
beyond the age Of eighty years.
A book agent who invaded the Kingdom Of King
MwanPa, Of Africa. was captured by order OF his
Majesty and 0uartercd into seventeen pieces. The
agent wa, selling ianoH sraS ana tho King
Paterfamilias says the story-teller of Tho Boston
Budget" in a spirit OF mischief was attempting to
confound the knowledge OF his six-yearold by assert
ing that the face OF clock was not face because
IL did eyes; but the alphabet was fresh In
the chiid's memory, and she Immediately upset her
parents argument by pointing triumphantiy to the
Roman numerals IL upon the DIAL with convincing
"oh. yes. they have; there are two rs"
A Successful Appeal-Intle Dot-Mamma, can't
Omaha Mamma-You must not go anywhere near
well ! isn't 'fraId OF measles. Can't got"
eff you should take the measles perhaps your
"ohi / didn't fink OF that"-tomaha World.
One of "Tho Boston Budgets" droll small boys
was making life a burden to tho quieter portion OF
tho family. Keep quiet, child, and don't be so
boistcrous." called tho mother impatiently. swell,
don't want to be girl-sterous," came tho prompt
rctort. and that mother wonders what sho has done
TO merit tho sad visitation of being the parent OF
punster.
"No. sir.n Numbered tho old gentleman. 81 have
made up my mind that my daughter shall nevef marry
sshe might do a great deal worse, sir"
"ImpossibIe Poker has proved tho nination Of
the niatuation She could never do worse.".
Excuse me. sir. but I'm sure sure. sho could: s She
The old man thought 1t over.-tWashington Critic
The Boston paragraphists arc again bringing out Of
their chestnut drawers the dear old wittclsms about
tho moving sights in New-York on May dav
LIT us hope that Lady Dartmouth's letter in "The
Times may lead to practical results o IN ao the Sct ion
English people pay weekly for foreign eggs and sug-
GSst go ino o Soces 1 Of English poultry
Qondon Globe
says "The Boston Herad". "what vile habit
that Is which INDUCED in on street cars by
people who certainly ought to know better. That OF
putting coins in the mouth Is the ono referred to. 1t
is quito common among women, who under such cir
cumstances never to have quito hands enough,
and they press their mouths into service to do
what Is not only vulgar thing. but absolutely hthy
The nickel which ia taken from the purse may have
recently left q hand unwashed since 1t fondled q
child dying with dlphtheria other infectious dis
case or it may have from the hand Of man
suffering from the most loathsome OF disorders"
Tho Craze Assumes New Form.-"well, shall
call and you tomorrow. jessie"
Ella"
sAnd I shall bring Fdo with me-"
"NOl Why notl"
Grover is not receiving at present He Is In mourn
ing for brother who run over by South Boston
car Poor little fellow 1t wrings my heart 10 have
h% s uS Of
dear. "-(BOston Courier.
pretty town named Gladstone has been founded in
the San Gabriel Valley California OF course Home |
Rule win DO tho distinguishing feature of its local |
governments
Another objectionable practice which Is the in |
crease, and which lies entirely In the hands OF the |
women themselves to sGueca At once Is smSsns
b %sT SaVs een c wSSS :y
Is no longer adhered TO- AZ race meetings especially
most mon seem To think they can smoke when and |
where thoy like: and at Jerome and Reckaway, which
are par excellence ladies' meetings. men walk on the
and C cisarettcs, throwing the ends away and when
occasion requires very much to the dis
OF a pretty white costume that has taken many
sleopless nights to invent good healthy snub or
two would change oil this in jiny.- Town Topics.
The lively newspaper duel between "The Chronicle"
and "Tho Examiner" Of San Francisco is still going
papers. Young Hearst Is filling "Tho Examiner"
with all kinds of features and every variety OF
headline" mt extra cost Of nearly $4,000 a
month. And "The Chronicle" Is following suit
Young Hearst Ia making readable paper, but as an
old Californian expressed 1t, It Will be hard work for
any colorcd youth to got away with "our Mike
do Young"
A Californian has been telling how lively Tomb
stone, Arizona, was few years ago. 81 hired out
barlceper" he says, ain the principal saloon OF
Tombstone. 1t was tho biggest saloon ever saw.
Tho bar sixty feet long aud every known gambling
game was In full blast Every day or two there was
shooting scrape and somebody got killed wounded
Every time row began l would drop q quarter
the floor and pretend that 1t had rolled behind tho
whiskcy barrels, and then would crawl in after It.
was hunting for money behind those barrels about
half OF the time. whishey straight was the regular
rink, and II stranger came In and ordered fancy
drink the proprietor would pass whskey STRAIGHT